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Old 07-30-2013, 11:47 AM
 
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Hi all,

Thanks for your responses to my other post. I just wanted to know...as I've been looking all over the web for info about Bozeman, I ran into a post with a lengthy rant on radiation in Bozeman and open ore mines that give off radiation in the area. The poster linked this with higher incidences of cancer. Any truth to this? or just a crazy conspiracy nut?
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Old 07-30-2013, 12:22 PM
 
Location: Back at home in western Washington!
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Hi all,

Thanks for your responses to my other post. I just wanted to know...as I've been looking all over the web for info about Bozeman, I ran into a post with a lengthy rant on radiation in Bozeman and open ore mines that give off radiation in the area. The poster linked this with higher incidences of cancer. Any truth to this? or just a crazy conspiracy nut?
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Not sure what open ore mines there are in Bozeman...the Butte area is more well known for its pit mining. Perhaps the person posting what you read was confused about what towns the mines are located in...
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Old 07-30-2013, 08:12 PM
 
Location: Bozeman, Montana
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Well, yes, you ran across someone who must have been wearing a tinfoil hat.
There is nothing to his rant about open mines or radiation.
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Old 07-30-2013, 08:43 PM
 
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Radon is a legitimate concern in many areas of Montana. It can collect in buildings usually in basements. There are collection cannister tests that can determine if mitigation is necessary. It can vary from house to house. When buying a property it is commonly part of a home inspection or an environmental phase I with the results being a contingency listed at closing.
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Old 07-30-2013, 11:20 PM
 
Location: North Dakota
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I've never heard of that being a problem in Bozeman.
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Old 08-01-2013, 09:45 AM
 
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Either that poster you read was nuts, or he/she confused radon with radiation. Radon is a very common problem in Montana, the Rocky Mountains, and a large part of the United States. It's easy to test for and also easy to mitigate. As historyfan pointed out, testing for it is usually part of a typical home inspection..
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Old 08-01-2013, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Bozeman, Montana
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Radon can be detected in one house and not detected in the house next to it. It is a problem especially for smokers, causing their chance of developing lung cancer to increase dramatically. A radon test is the only way to know if your house has it.

Radon can be found in many areas of the west, including Gallatin County.

Here is info about it and where to get testing and remediation:
Radon Levels for Montana

Hope that helps.

H.I.
Bozeman
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Old 08-03-2013, 09:00 AM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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From the linked article, I found this interesting:
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Sam Sperry of the Montana Vital Statistics Bureau says that Montanans have about 55.2 lung cancer deaths per 100,000 people compared to 67.5 per 100,000 average throughout the United States. The national average background level of radon in outdoor air is between 0.2 and 0.7 picoCuries per liter (pCi/L). For indoor air, the national average is 1.3 pCi/L, but in Montana the average is 5.9 pCi/L.
Hmmm....
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Old 08-03-2013, 09:09 AM
 
Location: Spots Wyoming
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From the linked article, I found this interesting:


Hmmm....
I find it interesting that as "Equipment" gets better and "Scientists" learn more, they are finding more and more things that cause people to be ill. I'm talking things that we normally took for granted, like oranges. Now they have determined that oranges cause cancer. You just have to eat 22 pounds a day for several years, but you too will get cancer from oranges.

The equipment used for detection has gotten better through the years. So places that we assumed were safe, are now unsafe. They were always that way, we just couldn't detect it before. Think about it, were there any claims of "Radon deaths" in the 1960's? No.

There is also the alarmists. In my area, right now, there is a big fight going on with floridating the water. The leader in the cause to stop it said, on the radio during an interview, "Floridation causes ADD and ADHD. My child has already been diagnosed with ADHD, so if Floridation continues, think of where he'll be in 5 years." The guy conducting the interview said, "You do realize that the city put floridation on hold, back in the 1970's and our water is not floridated, right?"

Mayve there have been reports that have come out on this area?
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Old 08-03-2013, 09:08 PM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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The conclusion is obvious: better detection methods cause cancer!

There've been a number of similar incidents involving broadcast and cell towers -- where people get all in an uproar about all the terrible problems they're causing... only to learn that the tower isn't on-line yet.

My dentist here (still the same one I used last time I lived here!) says he doesn't even have to ask where kids live, he can tell by their teeth -- the ones who get fluoridated water have good teeth; the ones who don't, don't.

Methinks the vast majority of ADD and ADHD cases are caused by helicopter parenting and never having a moment to just be kids. -- There's been some interesting research on how kids learn, and it doesn't actually happen in class, or while doing homework. It happens while they're "wasting time" -- that's when the brain processes new knowledge into a form it can use. It follows that when kids' every waking moment is scheduled, they're prevented from learning as well as they could.
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